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Also keep in mind many instances defederated us.
With the mass of redditors leaving Reddit it’s no surprise that the federation map has so much red around us. I only hope lemmy.world keeps us federated because they feel very much like the link between worlds for me. The users are a mixed bag and full of “RED FASH” libs, but having a community that is large and can decide for themselves by visiting and observing us/our users is much better than this de-fed stuff. Much more in the spirit of FOSS and etc also.
Usually, if they have stuck arround this long they are likely not to randomly cut ties to us.
That being said some of their users will avoid us, I saw this person doing a wonderful thing trying to make sure all the Hong Kong communities knew about each other, but once someone on Lemmy.world informed her we where pro PRC here that post got deleted, so I feel it will be a mixed bag.
Mixed bag but no cut ties is the best outcome from my perspective. Plenty of new people who can actually see opinions that challenge their worldview so its not just a hugbox, I don’t want those often toxic arguments here on genzedong itself, but on Lemmy.world having liberals see obvious communists who are lgbt, friendly, poc, etc will help soften their assumptions I hope.